Tag Archives: military spending

The U.S. Conference of Mayors on Monday unanimously passed three resolutions opposing the military-heavy Trump budget proposal. These resolutions urge Congress to reverse the Trump budget and move funding out of the military, wars and nuclear weapons and into human and environmental needs.

As Congress continues to make budget decisions that favor military spending over human needs, Brave New Films and a politically diverse group of organizations have come together as a coalition to shine a light on this poster child of Pentagon waste.

With polls showing that a majority of the public is war-weary and that there is growing support for cutting military spending, the peace movement finds itself in a rare moment of opportunity. Concentrating efforts on building broad coalitions, there is a renewed energy among peace and economic justice groups to radically influence the Pentagon’s budget, which has more than doubled ...

In 2011, global military spending surged to US $1.74 trillion. Given the numerous crises facing the planet — economic, environmental, health, diplomatic — it is imperative that we create a global movement to shift this money to human needs. We know that there are thousands of organizations and millions of individuals who support this point of view – what is ...

(Stockholm, 15 April 2013) World military expenditure totalled $1.75 trillion in 2012, a fall of 0.5 per cent in real terms since 2011, according to figures released today by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).* The comprehensive annual update of the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database is accessible from today at www.sipri.org. Read this press release in Swedish (PDF). The fall—the ...

Help inform the electorate of the referendum on Nov. 6 in support of reducing federal military spending in order to increase funds available for education, infrastructure, and job creation. Contact Henry Lowendorf, grnhpeacecouncil@gmail.com, 203-389-9547 Sponsored by the Greater New Haven Peace Council